Dear CCI Friends and Followers,

Some 800 U.S. Military bases operate across the world. I’ve been stunned wondering how much money must be going into these huge operations about which we Americans have little to no information or decision making. The subject seemed too huge to even know how to begin investigating.

These 800 bases were never mentioned (that I remember) during the 2020 election.  Nor were the dozens of wars being fought in countries we seldom know how to find on maps!  We salute our soldiers and don’t ask or care where they are or what they are doing.

This morning, I finally got answers to my questions and more: I got to hear educated, passionate voices on a webinar from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

The Quincy Institute is a relatively new U.S. “Think Tank” and the most truthful and daring of the dozens of these entities that exist in the Washington DC area. Most are political party specific. They “think” for their Democrat or Republican Congress members.

The Quincy Institute is different. It was founded in 2019 by a West Pointer, a dedicated military man, Andrew Bacevich … who woke up, left the military, got a PhD in U.S. Military Science and began writing books and speaking with the American public. He founded the Institute to educate regarding America’s wars, bases and much more. He’s kindly, analytical and committed to finding the Truth … with the hope of saving our nation and our world in the process.

Google the Quincy Institute first, if you don’t know the scope of this new Institute. Then click this URL https://youtu.be/uSauo4d-SMA to learn about the 800 bases from Bacevich and his three expert researchers. If you go to about 4 minutes in … Bacevich will begin to explore this topic.

I was amazed to learn so much in such a short time! You may be also.

Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives

Dear  CCI Readers,

Increasingly, the internet is providing us facts that we seldom get in our mainstream media. The following are the first RT articles I remember sending to our CCI audience. These pieces below are concise and contain the same type of information being covered across the world.  It’s time for us  to wake up to the new “Multi-polar” world in which we now exist.

Our major parties still haven’t come to terms with this fact. Definitely we were the Unipolar country … from 1945 to the 2000’s. Somewhere between 2010 and today, the situation began changing rapidly. We are now one of the poles but not the only pole. As is being repeated currently in Europe, “There is no one at the head of the table; the table is round.” 

Scan the following short articles for evidences of what now exists and will continue as all countries shift to build their trade, policies and currencies accordingly. Hopefully these happenings will do away with notions about creating exotic weaponry and wars to regain the former Unipolar world concept.

Think of the dollars that will be available for education, healthcare, infrastructure and our indigent populations by using money currently being spent on war machinery!!!

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Dear CCI Followers,

There is little to rejoice over regarding the latest moves from the Biden administration. However, it is getting “kick back” from some important places, such as this article below from The Hill.

The Hill in 2019 was ranked second among all U.S. news sites for political readership, second to CNN, and ahead of Capitol Hill competitors such as Politico.

As of 2020, the newspaper claims to have more than 22,000 print readers. The Hill is distributed for free in newspaper boxes around the U.S. Capitol building, and mailed directly to all congressional offices.

Back when I was calling on members in the 90’s and 2000’s, there always was a current issue of The Hill prominently placed in their Congressional waiting rooms.

Please read this piece on understanding or misunderstanding Russia printed a few days ago.

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Dear CCI Readers,

We get all sorts of responses to emails that we send out to our CCI list. This one below is from an acknowledged Air Force “Missiler” of earlier years, Larry Rhoades. I thought you might enjoy his reflection on our $100 Billion for nuclear weapons and asked his permission to print his note, which he graciously gave.

Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives

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Why is America getting a new $100 billion nuclear weapon?

Bulletin
February 8, 2021
By Elisabeth Eaves

America is building a new weapon of mass destruction, a nuclear missile the length of a bowling lane. It will be able to travel some 6,000 miles, carrying a warhead more than 20 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It will be able to kill hundreds of thousands of people in a single shot.

The US Air Force plans to order more than 600 of them.

On September 8, the Air Force gave the defense company Northrop Grumman an initial contract of $13.3 billion to begin engineering and manufacturing the missile, but that will be just a fraction of the total bill. Based on a Pentagon report cited by the Arms Control Association Association and Bloomberg News, the government will spend roughly $100 billion to build the weapon, which will be ready to use around 2029.

To put that price tag in perspective, $100 billion could pay 1.24 million elementary school teacher salaries for a year, provide 2.84 million four-year university scholarships, or cover 3.3 million hospital stays for covid-19 patients. It’s enough to build a massive mechanical wall to protect New York City from sea level rise. It’s enough to get to Mars.

One day soon, the Air Force will christen this new war machine with its “popular” name, likely some word that projects goodness and strength, in keeping with past nuclear missiles like the Atlas, Titan, and Peacekeeper. For now, though, the missile goes by the inglorious acronym GBSD, for “ground-based strategic deterrent.” The GBSD is designed to replace the existing fleet of Minuteman III missiles; both are intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs. Like its predecessors, the GBSD fleet will be lodged in underground silos, widely scattered in three groups known as “wings” across five states. The official purpose of American ICBMs goes beyond responding to nuclear assault. They are also intended to deter such attacks, and serve as targets in case there is one.

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